I agree that access to care can sometimes be a problem in Canada. But when I lived in the US I saw many instances of access problems too. For example, a colleague's son put his hand through a glass door. He had to be trucked around to five hospitals, bleeding, with a severed nerve, before he could receive the emergency plastic surgery that he needed, because the HMO had such specific requirements.

I'm sure it's just selective memory, but it seems I hear a lot of complaints about health care and when the full story is discovered find out the person had to wait for their drugs and they went someplace like Wal-Mart, Sam's, or Costco. If they had issues with receiving care and they had insurance often it seems the person had an HMO. It seems the problem in those situations isn't with the health care, it is with the insurance provider or where one chooses to have their prescriptions filled.

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